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HTML

<div id="parent">
  <div id="child-1">
  </div>
  <div id="child-2">
  </div>
</div>

JavaScript

var templatePage = $('div#parent')[0].cloneNode(true);
$("#child-1", templatePage).text("hi");
alert($(templatePage).html());